Re: [Dillo-dev]Wild idea : frames

[Daniel R. <zup...@ya...>]

--- Eric GAUDET <eg...@in...> wrote:
> Don't render frames embeding DwPages in DwPages, but
> create an actual browser page for each frame of the
> frameset, with the correct width and height. The
> user can then place the frames as he wants without
> being bugged with having to read a page in a tiny
> window.

As I think about this, this sounds like a neat
approach for re-sizable frames.  But bear in mind that
not all frames are re-sizable.  We'll need to handle
both re-sizable AND non-re-sizable frames, IMHO.

> We'll also need to add an identifier for the
> frameset (say a hash of the url ?), in case the same
> target names are used in different framesets. That
> doesn't seem pose any problem.

Actually, would it not be easier if we simply embedded
the DwPages within some master widget that contained
the master URL and the master frameset?

Also, another problem will surface in the course of
this: How on earth do we plan to handle bookmarking,
and back/forward buttons for frames?  Last time I
checked, the W3C HTML specs generally seemed to admit
that this was a very messy situation in HTML.  In
Netscape, they had a HECK of a time with this. 
Bookmarking was impossible, and back/forward had to be
given an ugly hack to handle frames, originally.

In this course of thought, yet another thought has
occured to me: With so many different
languages/protocols (http, ftp, html, xml, xslt, css,
JavaScript, etc.), why not make Dillo more generic and
modular by breaking the HTML support out into a
plugin?

Speaking of which, BTW, whatever became of the FTP plugin?

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Sincerely,
Daniel
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